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Key Considerations for Workplace COVID-19 Vaccine Policies

Cisive

In December, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) clarified that vaccines aren’t “medical examinations. ” The EEOC dealt specifically with the issue of whether vaccines are “medical examinations” under the ADA and also addressed the applicability of various laws affected by the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations, including the ADA, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and, specifically, religious ac

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Overcoming the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Hppy

Cybercrime is an enormous and growing problem with many experts stating that it is the biggest threat to businesses. Additionally, the pandemic has actually led to a sharp increase in cybercrime with so many people now working from home along with increasable advanced phishing attacks that look to take advantage of the difficult and fast-changing situation.

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Why human resource management is important

PeopleStrategy

Understanding the concrete value of human resource management is critical. The post Why human resource management is important appeared first on PeopleStrategy.

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The Post-Pandemic Workplace: How to Onboard New Staff Effectively

TalentCulture

Once the pandemic is behind us, and in what will be a blended work environment, what will be the best way to onboard new staff? Due to the broad repercussions […]. The post The Post-Pandemic Workplace: How to Onboard New Staff Effectively appeared first on TalentCulture.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Listening is the Most Important skill a Leader can have.

Brigette Hyacinth

Listening is the most important skill a leader can master. It is the basis of so many other skills and traits that make up a leader. However, it is a tough skill to master as it requires us to be more present, attentive, engaged, open and flexible. Good listening skills in this digital era, due to information overload and shortened attention span, is fast becoming an endangered species.

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A Truly Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Brigette Hyacinth

A former manager of mine once told me, “If I am going down, you are going down with me.” That was in relation to having a bad sales quarter. From that point on, there was no need to pay attention to her. It becomes difficult to continue to feel passion for the job once you see a lapse in integrity in your boss. It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy.

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Boost Learners Efficiency With Blended Learning

PSB

Introduction to Blended learning. Blended learning is a term that is increasingly used to describe how e-learning combines traditional teaching methods and independent learning into a hybrid teaching method. Blended learning is increasingly being used as a term for an e-learning approach that combines traditional classrooms and independent learning methods, creating a new “hybrid” teaching methodology.

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I’m in trouble for sharing confidential info, boss is spying on our Zoom meetings, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I got caught sharing confidential info. I really screwed up at work and now I’m so scared of getting in trouble or getting fired that I don’t even want to go to work. I’m a supervisor of an administrative unit with the state, and I’m the direct assistant to my district manager. Recently my district manager requested I do some filing for her, and it turned out to be employee evaluations I was filing in employee files.

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Ask Madison: Talking dollars and sense – how do I make the case for budget changes to my employee recognition program during recovery?

Madison

A budget squeeze shouldn’t necessarily lead to reducing investment in your R&R program. In fact, research suggests programs that engage employees are good for the bottom-line. Employees need to feel that leadership is genuine when potential dollar reductions are considered for R&R programs dedicated to them; what could leadership do to adjust?

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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5 Tips for Work from Home Parents

HR Digest

Five tips for work from home parents who want to maintain productivity by creating a distraction-free workspace. The coronavirus situation has forced a large part of the workforce to work from home. And if you are a parent with children also in lockdown, then the difficulties of putting in a full-day work are something you grapple with every day. Parenting while juggling calls, emails and an approaching deadline is not a laughing matter.

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Keeping Your Low Back Healthy while Working from Home

LifeSpeak

By Tom Toth, Movement Specialist, and Fitness Expert. In the fall of 2006, I was a young personal trainer and an aspiring competitive powerlifter. Powerlifting requires one to bench press, squat, and deadlift the maximum amount of weight possible, and it is extremely strenuous on the body. During one set of squats, I felt a “click” in my low back on the left side, but no pain.

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OKRs, Strategy, and Execution: Top 10 Questions From Betterworks’ Goal Summit

Betterworks

Betterworks hosted our first full-day, virtual Goal Summit conference in December 2020 for senior leaders looking to transform their organizations through results-driven goals. The event brought together hundreds of innovative voices across business organization and human capital roles to bridge the gap that often exists between people, strategy, and execution.

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how to manage a combative, negative employee

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have an employee who I would really like to succeed, but her attitude makes it difficult for her to get ahead. She has an us vs them mentality when it comes to management and often takes a combative approach when discussing employee issues, policy changes, updates, or general feedback. It makes other departments shy away from her, and she misses out on promotional opportunities due to her attitude.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How to Standardize Your Medical Staff Services Organization

Precheck

How to Standardize Your Medical Staff Services Organization Jan. 26, 2021. Dionne Austin Director of Credentialing Programs. Medical staff services professionals will continue to face several changes and challenges moving into 2021. Having different standards for privileging and credentialing at each healthcare facility complicates matters. Streamlining and standardizing your MSS processes could result in increased efficiency, improved patient outcomes and more consistent data across your heal

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Introducing Our New Brand Identity

Quickbase

To the Quickbase community, . Over the past year, in the face of overwhelming uncertainty, we’ve seen our customers do incredible things. From providing support directly to those on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic, to transforming the way supply chains work end-to-end, organizations are no longer theorizing about what the?future of work could look like—they’re living it.

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Pooled Employer Plans: The Pros and Cons for Businesses | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

As of Jan. 1, 2021, pooled employer plans (PEPs) are now available options for employers. Established by the SECURE Act, PEPs operate as a new type of open multiple employer plan (MEP), changing the typical 401(k) and retirement plan landscape. What are PEPs and what do employers need to know about these retirement plans for their employees?

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What Should You Ask at the End of a Job Interview?

SHRM

Not sure what to ask when the interviewer says, "Do you have any questions for me?" at the end of a job interview? In this video, Self Made Millennial Madeline Mann serves up five great questions that will help you fully vet the job opportunity while showcasing your value. Originally posted on YouTube.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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No matter how educated, talented, or rich you are, how you TREAT OTHERS ultimately tells all.

Brigette Hyacinth

According to Gallup’s research, 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. One reason for this is, many employees feel like their boss does not respect or appreciate them. The truth is great leaders don’t talk down to their employees or make them feel inferior. They make everyone that they come in contact with, feel like they are the most important person in the room.

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Six Potential Advantages Of Hiring A Business Coach

Forbes Coaches Council

Even if some things seem unorthodox, you just might find that this knowledge helps you to take revolutionary steps that will help your company move to the next tier.

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6 Tips to Ladder Safety in the Workplace

C. A. Short Company

Workplace safety unites the interests of employers and employees, as no one wants to see injuries or lost time from preventable incidents on the job. A properly structured Safety Incentive Program not only decreases injuries and lost time, it also works to increase productivity and overall employee satisfaction. Let’s take a closer look at the statistics behind ladder incidents in construction.

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A New Guide to Workplace Communication

MTM Recognition

Communicating effectively is a critical aspect of getting any job done, whether it occurs in-person or virtually. But let’s face it, communication is easier when it’s in-person. This is understandable since, according to various studies , 93% of communication is made up of nonverbal cues. At this point in time, according to Gallup Panel Data , the number of employed adults engaged in working from home has skyrocketed to 62% due to COVID.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Leadership Is Dynamic: It Takes Many Shapes And Forms

Forbes Coaches Council

Leadership is dynamic, and over the past 30 years, has evolved along a continuum from heroic to situational to transformative. Over the last three decades, shared models of leadership focusing more on influence and relationships versus formal roles and authority have also developed.

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What is an LMS authoring tool?

PSB

Introduction. While e-learning authoring tools are a must – in every L&D toolbox – new technologies are changing the way we produce and deliver digital learning. Developing training content used to be a challenging task, but with the rise of fast-moving, written tools, it is easier than ever to create course materials. With the advent of new e-learning tools such as e-learning authoring tools, fantastic interactions can now be created in minutes that would have once required prog

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ACI Specialty Benefits Executives Speaking at San Diego Business Summit

ACI Specialty Benefits

ACI’s VP of Corporate Relations, Sandy Glashaw, and SVP of Business Development, David Fernandez, will be joining the San Diego Business Summit, a virtual event held on January 28, 2020 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. This all-day interactive Summit will bring together business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders for a day of workshops, keynote speakers offering a wealth of insight on “engaging business minds to achieve success.”.

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How to Create Job Postings That Make Hiring Easier on Human Resources

Eightfold

HR departments are busy. Between hiring and non-hiring activities, they have to carefully structure and manage their days, often relying on processes to help them maximize their resources. When those processes are outdated, it can be a real struggle for HR to properly manage those resources. . This is especially true of hiring processes that, when ineffective, make talent acquisition a drain on HR resources.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Onboard New Employees Virtually

PSB

Simplify employee onboarding process. In this blog, we will explore how eLearning software helps increase the effectiveness of onboarding and minimize costs and offers several unique opportunities that go beyond traditional onboard techniques. Online onboarding is a great way to complete new hiring documents, learn office policies, participate in team and colleague presentations, get used to the company and its culture, and acquire the skills needed to perform their digital technology roles.

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The Ultimate Guide to Employee Goal Setting

Namely

Setting goals holds employees accountable for their performance and helps keep them motivated. In fact, 93 percent of employees think goal setting is crucial to their work performance. Simply writing down goals makes employees 42 percent more likely to achieve them.

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Don’t Just Survive, Thrive: Reaching New Heights by Moving Your Workforce to the Cloud

Workforce Software

Here are four ways a cloud-based workforce management solution will help you thrive in the year ahead and ease any unexpected challenges or burdens across your business.